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PSN Maintenance Scheduled for 6/25/13!

The Playstation Blog has posted a notice for PSN maintenance: In order to continue bringing you the best online games experience on PSN, we will perform routine maintenance beginning the morning of Tuesday, June 25th. This maintenance will start at approximately 9:30AM PT (10:30AM MT / 11:30AM CT / 12:30 PM ET) and will last until around 4:00PM PT (5:00PM MT / 6:00PM CT / 7:00PM ET). During
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June 24, 2013
Square Releases More FFXV Information!

Here you go folks, this is supposed to be the main cast of FFXV. Your eyes do not deceive you; all dudes and no chicks. Does this mean that they won’t try to squeeze in a love story to this? The only crystal left to the world lies in the Kingdom of Lucis. Upon striking
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June 24, 2013
RUMOR: XBOX One Release Date to be November 27th?

Take this with a grain of salt since MS hasn’t put out a Press Release yet, but sources online are saying that the XBOX One will be released on 11/27/13. It would appear that Twitter user David Difranco received an email regarding his preorder being upgraded to “Release Date Delivery” now scheduled for 11/27/13. This
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June 21, 2013
Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life

Ok, this is a little bit of a departure from our normal articles but bare with me. The above is a TED talk sent to me by my boss at my “day job”, who is a very avid TED viewer. Jane McGonigal is a Game Designer that has completed previously done a few TED talks
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June 21, 2013
Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep DLC is HUGE! *UPDATE* Now With 5 Minutes of Gameplay!

Ok, we knew that Gearbox was going to be adding on a fair amount of content, like a gun that shoots swords and the like, but I didn’t think they were going to add this much content. Below is a list of all of the new characters and models that will be put in to
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June 21, 2013
Destiny: The Sort of MMO

Game Informer posted a video interview with Bungie about their upcoming game Destiny, which shed some more light on how the game will play. You saw the screen caps we took during Sony’s E3 press conference, as well as the live stream. If in some case you missed it, and how DARE YOU miss it,
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June 20, 2013
Microsoft Get’s Off the Mat and Dusts Itself Off!

In surprising not-so-surprising news today Microsoft has announced major changes to the XBOX One ecosystem, and it’s about damned time. Microsoft has been under fire as of late since after they released their highly controversial and oft made fun of DRM policies for the XBOX One, and is ready to do a complete 180 on
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June 19, 2013
Is Microsoft Actually Listening to Consumers? *UPDATE* YES!!!!!

None of this has been confirmed by Microsoft yet but Giantbomb.com is reporting that there are big changes to the XBOX One’s game policies, essentially killing all DRM that was going to be imprinted to the console. Those changes are rumored as follows: No more always online requirement The console no longer has to check
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June 19, 2013
What Does Gaming on the PS4 Look Like? Here’s a Video for You!

Sure, the music sucks, the main guy lives in a shitty apartment, and the acting is HORRIBLE, but if you can get passed that you will get a lot of information on how gaming on the PS4 works. For one; random friends can screech in your ear from a completely different game and you can
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June 19, 2013
PS3 Beta Started: Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn

There isn’t a lot that can be said about the Beta at this time, due to T&C restrictions, but I can say that when I got my code on the 14th I was genuinely excited (and still am). Once the Beta goes Public in July, and the restrictions are lifted, I’ll post a good write-up
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June 17, 2013